What means
It shows a rocket's small booster engine.
In the 1980s, the European version of Sharp's MZ-700 home computer kept this rocket icon in a second set of pre-drawn screen pictures. Each picture occupied a text cell, so programs could assemble simple scenes from ready-made blocks; the Unicode mapping traces this one to display byte A1.
In that same 1980s MZ-700 setup, the alternate pictures weren't available as ordinary keypresses in the BASIC programming language. A program had to use POKE—a command that writes a value into screen memory—and set the alternate-character flag. As of 2026-09-28, Linux GNOME/GTK text fields accept Ctrl+Shift+U, then 1CCA1 and Enter; in Word for Windows, type 1CCA1 and press Alt+X.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does this character show as an empty box?
Your font or app lacks a glyph for it. Unsupported characters may appear as an empty box, a question-mark box, or blank space; another font may help if the app uses it for fallback.
How to type
𜲡\1CCA1Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.